I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

We don't know the power that's within our own bodies

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

Love speaks toThe soulIn a languageThe brainCan’t comprehend.

Nutrition is an exciting, dynamic field - there are more than 10, 000 articles published on human nutrition in medical journals every year.

I don't normally watch films I'm in because I'm squeamish about that and it takes me quite a long time to recover and I have to go to work. I'm not being coy or cute, but it's just true.

The nature of faith, I think, is based so much on one's capacity for hope for those whom you love.

I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

The Confederate flag is one of those things that should only be seen on t-shirts, belt buckles and bumper stickers to help the rest of us identify the worst people in the world.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.